SF&F Picture 17 out of 19 by Keith Thompson.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: Scribe

She's a scrivener automaton working (enslaved?) in a rather wealthy merchant's library. The arcane procedures for creating automatons are as varied as their appearance and roles in society (servitors, military, labour, prostitution, etc). The taxidermic use of cured human remains is legalised, economical and common place in their construction (similar to how the powdered wigs in our past often used the hair of corpses). However the practice of 'rendering' down living persons into an automaton state is outlawed, it is frequently employed since the resultant product tends to outperform the legal alternative. The merchant who owns this particular scribe automaton has some very extensive paperwork detailing her conformity to all applicable regulation. However, those who deal with her have noticed how quickly she learns new tasks, and have caught her smiling when backs are turned. Animator's blue colerase on sketch paper. Photoshop. Prints are available here: http://www.keiththompsonart.com/pages/scribe.html

Part of several tours:

The word of world is forest

Surrealism (january 07)


	Categories: [Architecture, Houses, Castles, etc] [Head or Facial Study] [Robots, Androids, Humanoid Warmachines] [Woman, Women] [Book Illustration] Techniques: [Pencil/Graphite Pen] [Computer Program]

Date	Name	Comment
21 Jul 2007	Angela Dawn Neeley	Loading... ah! itsyou! I have book with your picture in it
22 Oct 2007	Aeschylus	Loading... Yoink I confess to thievery! Keith's android is my new desktop.
24 Oct 2007	Green Phoenix	Loading... Amazing combination of flesh and bone. Not a 'comfortable' picture to look at, but in the best possible way. ~#@
30 Nov 2007	Richard Cameron Clark	Loading... You are in the true sense of the word.......An artist, your work is chilling and brilliant
18 Mar 2008	Mettarë	Loading... That is truly eerie. I have a similar story/artwork, developed independently. I really admire your depiction.
7 Apr 2008	Anon.	Loading... I too posess a book with this in its pages.
9 Apr 2008	Jennifer M Rude	Loading... This is such a striking image. The detail is amazing and the story behind it is fantastic (ever consider publishing the story?
21 Apr 2008	Roxanne Hancock	Loading... Very interesting background! Makes this picture even more fascinating.
26 Apr 2008	Twyla "Aidyla" Bendyna	Loading... wierd as an artist, though, I must compliment. Very well drawn!
26 Apr 2008	Lucy Mueller	Loading... scary, confusing, but somehow I can understand how she’s feeling........
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